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Chancre

noun
1.
A small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis).





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"Chancre" Quotes from Famous Books



... germ will grow first where it is rubbed in, causing a hard ulcer, called a chancre, and after that it travels through the entire body. No place is sacred to its destructive power and it lives as long as the patient does. It is the cause of much insanity, palsy, apoplexy, deafness, blindness and early death. In mothers it causes miscarriages and in children it causes stillbirths, ...
— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss


Words linked to "Chancre" :   lues, yatobyo, tularemia, sore, rabbit fever, tularaemia, deer fly fever, chancrous, pox, lues venerea, syph, syphilis


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